Will environmental calcium declines hinder Bythotrephes establishment success in Canadian Shield lakes?

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 810-820

  Kim, Natalie ^a   Walseng, Bjørn ^b   Yan, Norman David ^a,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c Dorset Environmental Science Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRATER LAKE; CRUSTACEAN; GROWTH RATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE WATER; POPULATION DECLINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TOLERANCE;

CANADA; NORWAY;

BYTHOTREPHES; BYTHOTREPHES LONGIMANUS; CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIIDAE;

EID: 84860335062     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F2012-024     Document Type: Article

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